Visual impairment

According to the Central Bureau of statistics Aruba counts 3105 persons with a visual impairment. We speak of a visual impairment when due to a eye disease or because of a trauma you have sustained damage to one or more parts of the eye.(see image) When glasses of medical intervention don't help anymore and you continue experiencing extreme problems with your vision, then we talk about a visual impairement.

The amount of visually impaired persons has risen in the last 10 years not only in Aruba but around the world.